Titanic leaves Southampton, England for New York City on April 10, 1912, with some 2,228 passengers and crew.

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The Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York. Five days into the journey, the ship struck an iceberg and sank. (File/AP)

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The Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York. Five days into the journey, the ship struck an iceberg and sank. (File/Library of Congress)

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Titanic's Captain Edward John Smith died when the ship sank. (AP/File)

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A radio telegram from the German ship Amerika to the Titanic to warn her crew of the icebergs that they eventually rammed, but the telegram was never deciphered by the ship's telegram operator. (File/AP)

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The iceberg that sank the Titanic, as seen from the steamship Carpathia. (Library of Congress)

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Titanic survivors on lifeboats on their way to the steamship Carpathia. (Library of Congress)

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Titanic survivors on lifeboats on their way to the rescue ship Carpathia. (Library of Congress)

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A lifeboat cushion from Titanic, decorated with an emblem of the White Star Line. About 1,500 passengers and crew died in the disaster. Few victims sank with the ship. Most drifted off in lifejackets and were killed by the cold ocean temperature. (File/AP)

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The life vest worn by Madeline Astor, wife of John Jacob Astor IV. About 1,500 passengers and crew died in the disaster. Few victims sank with the ship. Most drifted off in lifejackets and were killed by the cold ocean temperature. Among the famous victims were U.S. millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim, streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener, and Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida. (Associated Press)

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The steamship Carpathia took on more than 700 survivors from Titanic's lifeboats. (Library of Congress)

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A group of Titanic survivors aboard the Carpathia, after being rescued. (Library of Congress)

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Harold Bride, one of Titanic's wireless operators, being carried up ramp of the ship with feet bandaged. (Library of Congress)